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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






2. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






3. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






4. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






5. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






6. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






7. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






8. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






9. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






10. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






11. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






12. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






13. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






14. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






15. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






16. The dictionary meaning of a word.






17. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






18. A four line stanza in a poem.






19. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






20. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






21. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






22. A character struggles against some outside force.






23. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






24. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






25. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






26. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






27. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






28. The organizational form of a literary work.






29. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






30. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






31. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






32. The time and place of a story or play.






33. A three-line stanza.






34. What a story or play is about.






35. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






36. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






37. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






38. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






39. The person who 'tells' the story.






40. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






41. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






42. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






43. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






44. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






45. A strong pause within a line.






46. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






47. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






48. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






49. The selection of words in a literary work.






50. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.